Street-sign.



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STREET SIGN.

APPLICATION FILED 050.9. 1916.

Patented Jan. 28, 1919.

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STREET-SIGN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 28, 1919.

Application filed. December 9, 1916. Serial No. 135,919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. TONER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Street- Signs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relatesto street signs, particularly such as are intended for use at street intersections, and an object of the invention is to provide astreet corner sign having wings for each of the intersecting streets, the wing for a given street being adapted also to carry the indicia of the intersecting street.

Other objects and aims of the invention, more or less broad than those stated above, together with the advantages inherent, will be in part obvious and in part specifically re ferred to in the course of the following de scription of the elements, combinations, arrangements of parts, and applications of principles constituting the invention; and the scope of protection contemplated will appear from the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, which are to be taken as a part of this specification, and in which I have shown a merely preferred form of embodiment of the invention Figure 1 is a perspective view of a street sign embodying my invention; and Fig. 2 is a view partly in section and partly in elevation taken on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrows.

Referring to the numerals on the drawing, there is shown at 4 a front corner piece I which may be plain, cut out or decorated in any approved manner. From this corner piece extend two wmg pleces 5 and 6, each comprlsing cutout frames includlng large openings 7 and smaller openings 8 thereabove. There is also a similar corner piece 4: and similar wing pieces 5 and 6. The said pieces 4, 5 and 6 are arran ed in super imposed relation with those designated 4', 5 and 6 respectively as shown in Fig. 1. The two frame pieces for each wing are in superposed relation as stated, but spaced apart as by means of spacing members 9 at the bottom and one end. Into the spaces between the two frame pieces of each wing is adapted to be slid the sign proper indicated at 10, which carries on its face indicia of each of two intersecting streets, for instance in the drawings 57th street and Broadway. The sign for one wing will have 57th street in large figures and letters so as to fill up the large opening 7 of the wing, while the name Broadway will be in small letters so as to fill up the small opening 8 of the wing. The sign for the other wing will have Broadway in large letters and 57th street in small, to fill up the large and small openings of that wing respectively. Thus the signs may be readily removed and replaced, and the signholder will be adapted for use anywhere. The corner pieces 4 and 4: afford portions whereby the signholder may be secured in position as by means of bolts or the like, and preferably the two corner pieces are integral with their wing pieces.

Inasmuch as many changes could be made in the above construction, and many apparently widely different embodiments of my invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claim is intended to cover all the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

I claim:

A device of the kind described comprising two corner pieces with wing pieces extending therefrom respectively, said corner pieces and said wing pieces respectively arranged in superimposed relation, the superimposed wing pieces being spaced apart for the accommodation of signs, the spaces between the wing pieces being open to permit of the insertion or withdrawal of signs, and each wing piece having a large opening and also a smaller opening above the large opening.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

EDWARD J. TONER.

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